Key Moment(s): Clearly, Molinaro’s home run will be the lasting image from this game, but freshman Nick Monroe deserves credit for keeping his composure after coming out of the bullpen with one out in the ninth and immediately giving up a double to Tommy Monnot. The next batter,

Alex Miklos, followed with a sharp single to score Monnot and push the Kent lead back to two runs. But then, Monroe settled in, sandwiched a flyout and strikeout around a walk and helped keep the Seahawks within two runs, to set up the clutch bottom half of the inning that produced two runs.

Quotable: “We played extremely well on the defensive side, made some pitches, made some plays when we had to. Gave up a lot of baserunners and that makes it tough to pitch, and work out of it minimize damage. But I thought our pitching staff and defensively we did a real good job of pitching out of trouble.” – UNCW coach Mark Scalf

“If (the pitchers) had tried to do something different, instead of trusting their stuff, we probably do give up multiple runs in several innings. Overall I feel pretty good about we throw the baseball today. Mat wasn’t bad today, really the two walks he had were the ones that got him in trouble. They followed leadoff singles. ” – Scalf

While the Wizard always states the obvious, some that is not obvious. The Baseball Gods were with the Hawks today. Kent State has to be pissed. They are good. We were good at times My wife even went today. We will need to square up and hit the ball. Kent State has some guys who can flat out hit, and hit it hard.